In what may be called a significant move, the NHL recently allowed GoPro to equip players with their wearable cameras during the All Star Skills Challenge scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 24.

Latin Post reports that the wearable cameras enabled GoPro to broadcast what the players were seeing live while participating in the Skills Challenge.

Stepping back, it's no surprise that GoPro was been keen to find various means to broadcast the footage captured from by its wearable cameras live. Now, this has become possible as the company has entered into a partnership with Vislink.

As far as the size of its camera is concerned, GoPro is now presented with a challenge as they explore this type of sportcasting. In fact, the GoPro cameras are not very small in size for being worn by any player throughout the entire duration of the game without any inconvenience caused by the device.

The decision of the NHL to allow this unique way of broadcasting hockey has drawn substantial interest from the fans. While football players were allowed to use 'microphones' long back, it is not as difficult or bothersome as playing the game with a camera on their heads.

GoPro actually started testing its cameras on the players last year and now it seems that the NHL is eager to use the cameras with a view to help players learn the skills on stickhandling, skating as well as being a goalie.

It is likely that GoPro will also be permitted to install cameras on the boards in addition to in the nets. However, that is not as thrilling the experience of strapping them to the actual players.

In fact, for some time now, the NHL has been trying to make the game further exciting by getting rid of two line passes and also reducing the goalie's equipment.